MONO NO AWARE
Manuela Iodice
A train window, a fading sky,
light resting briefly on a stranger’s sleeve.
Nothing asks to be remembered,
and yet everything is already leaving.
In Japan, you learn to look at things
the way you watch petals fall —
not to keep them,
but to feel the quiet ache of their passing.
Beauty lives here,
in the moment just before goodbye.
Manuela Iodice
Manuela Iodice, 1990, was born in Naples, but moved to the north of Italy to study and then work.
Currently based in Milan, her work is mainly focused on fashion and portrait photography, while exploring different subjects as nature, objects or human presence to investigate her relationship with what is around her.
